([circa 1980 - 1981])
Alan Class,
1963 Series
- Price
- 0.20 GBP
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1980 ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Alan Class & Co. Ltd
- Brand
-
AC Class Series
- Editing
- Alan Class (reprint editor)
Issue Notes
Issue is undated. Estimated date based on analysis of brands and cover prices in the series.
Jack-in-the-Box!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #55 (February 1957)
-
The Jack-In-The-Box
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- L-177
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #55 (February 1957)
-
I Must Enter the Tomb of Tut-Am-Tut!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck (signed)
- Inks
- Don Heck (signed)
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Albert Cragg
- Synopsis
- A scientist creates a time machine to travel back to ancient Egypt in order to pose as a magician and find the location of a great treasure. He is trapped in the past when his time machine is buried with the Pharaoh.
- Reprints
- from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #35 (November 1962)
-
A Voice in the Dark
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman
- Inks
- Paul Reinman
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Freddy Sloan
- Synopsis
- A crook hides in a wax museum, but he is scared off by a phonogram record. The curator finds the record, but no one except the statues could have turned it on.
- Reprints
- from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #37 (January 1963)
-
His Name Was...Merlin!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Joe Cooke [The Great Nero/Merlin the Mystic]; Merlin
- Synopsis
- An untalented magician who takes the name Merlin is visited by the spirit of the real Merlin in the form of a derelict and offers to teach him some tricks. When the man learns Merlin's last trick of completely disappearing, he stiffs Merlin his fee. Merlin tells him that he'll be sorry and is the last to depart the theater after the magician uses his disappearing trick and is never seen again.
- Reprints
- from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #27 (March 1962)
-
Behold--the Monster!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-966
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Joe; J.G.
- Synopsis
- A publicity agent has a large paper mache monster created to promote a new movie but is despondent when his boss criticizes him for public complaints the object is generating. Unknown to anyone on Earth, an alien invasion force is drawing near when its commander orders the viewscreen to display a typical Earth creature so they will know what to expect. When the viewscreen picks up the large monster, the alien commander panics and orders a full retreat.
- Reprints
- from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #37 (January 1963)
-
Kraggoom! The Creature Who Caught an Astronaut!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Kraggoom; Derek Wolfington
- Synopsis
- An exiled gaseous alien criminal named Kraggoom waits in Earth orbit for the first human astronaut in order to enter his body and possess his mind, returning to Earth as a conqueror. However, the first astronaut turns out to be a wealthy cheat who paid a safecracker to obtain the test results from NASA's selection process and altered them so that he would be chosen as the first astronaut. He is unable to cope with space travel and develops amnesia under the stress. Kraggoom, trapped in the human's mind, suffers the same fate as the spacecraft returns to Earth.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #78 (March 1962)
-
The Toy Soldiers
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Billy Barton; Zogg
- Synopsis
- A boy who enjoys toy soldiers buys a new civil war figure to place in his prisoner of war stockade. That evening, he and his father are attacked by an invader from the sixth dimension. Suddenly, the lights go out, and when they turn the lights back on, the invader has disappeared. They chalk it up to some sort of unusual shared dream, and go back to sleep. The following morning when the boy wakes up and peers into his model stockade, he sees the invader languishing in the cell guarded over by the toy soldier.
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #39 (January 1963)
-
I Found the Impossible World!
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- John Fleming; Bartho; Ricca
- Synopsis
- An experimental time machine seems to fail, aging its inventor 10 years. In fact he travelled into a fantastic future, but had his memory erased as punishment for trying to sow discord.
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #38 (December 1962)
-
A Shaggy Wolf Tale!
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Williamson (signed)
- Inks
- Ralph Mayo
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- M-63
- Synopsis
- Atomic radiated wolves gain mental telepathy and request that humans cease killing animals for their pelts. In exchange, they give humans the gift of growing long coats.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #59 (August 1957)
-
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Jack-in-the-Box!
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1.
The Jack-In-The-Box
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2.
I Must Enter the Tomb of Tut-Am-Tut!
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3.
A Voice in the Dark
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4.
His Name Was...Merlin!
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5.
Behold--the Monster!
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6.
Kraggoom! The Creature Who Caught an Astronaut!
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7.
The Toy Soldiers
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8.
I Found the Impossible World!
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9.
A Shaggy Wolf Tale!
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- Katie
- Peter Croome
- Phil Hart
- Steve Jenner
- Karsten S.
- Ramon Schenk
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